Kevin Z.

6 until 10 a.m.

Kevin Z. hails from Punxsutawney, PA (yes, the home of the groundhog)........but is now living in Peru. He graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a degree in broadcasting. While in college, he was the sports director at the universities radio station, and the voice of Clarion Golden Eagles Basketball.

After college, Kevin worked for another station in Clarion, and was the morning show host at a station in Punxsutawney. He is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys (America's Team) and loves Dirt Track Racing. It is way too flat in Illinois, but he is enjoying the Central Time Zone.

Kevin takes you through the morning with the WGLC Morning Show from 6 until 10 a.m.

Charles

6 to 10 a.m.

Growing up in Earlville amongst the corn fields, Charles finds himself home during The WGLC Morning Show with Kevin Z. In his spare time, he works on a collection of old Chryslers from the 1960's that may or may not be on the road at any given time. Charles currently resides in Mendota with his wife and daughters.

John St. John

2 until 7 p.m.

The first '45 that I ever owned was, "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean and the first song I ever played on the radio was, "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard. I am Classic Country through and through and I love radio. My father told me not to be a DJ because I would starve. (His brother was a DJ and...did starve a few times) At first I listened to him but I had the bug and eventually started my radio career. The first job in radio that I experienced was taking the station out of tape automation and playing the broadcast of network football...you know, playing the local commercials and identifications. Simple enough but believe me I could mess even that up.

Eventually I further paid my dues by doing six hour overnight shifts and sometimes doing two six hour weekend shifts back to back...cause I loved it so much. So here I am now on your radio, still playing country music and I still get to play "Big Bad John" and "Mama Tried." I have two boys that live in Nashville so I get to go to Music City USA often and do the tourist thing just like everyone. I love my job. I love playing Classic Country music...most of the songs I grew up in radio, playing as current songs through the years.

Chuck Leary

7 until midnight

Ten-year-old boys dream, and this one wrote a letter to a radio icon at the time, much to the amusement of friends and family. The laughing stopped and the dream began as I stood in my driveway and opened up a return letter from Arthur Godfrey. He told me to stay in school, work hard and pay attention the voice inside me. He had given some good advise to Patsy Cline on his Talent Scouts show, so I took it to heart.

I've always loved music, and my earliest hero was Rick Nelson, who was inspired by Hank Williams, so my country roots were growing. I did form a trio with my brother Rick and a friend, and after some touring and making a demo tape, our manager told us Capitol Records was interested in signing us! Turns out, Uncle Sam was also interested in signing this singing Lieutenant Leary, commissioned out of college, and so I won an all expense paid Southeast Asian vacation to Chu Lai, Viet Nam! How could I refuse?

I have been privileged to share the airwaves across the country with a number of fine stations, and it all comes down to this. If I can bring the music to life for you, introduce you to the thoughts and voices of these great Classic Country artists, and maybe inspire just one more ten-year-old boy, like my heroes did for me, I've had a good day on the radio!

Dee Lewis

Midnight until 5 a.m.

Dee was born a music lover! Her mother was a big country fan and had a beat up old second-hand guitar that Dee loved to strum on whenever she had the chance. She grew up on Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry, Lynn Anderson, Charley Pride and Charlie Rich. As a teen, Dee also spent a lot of time listening to Casey Kasum's Top 40 Countdown every Sunday night. It was clear music and radio were her "things" as she learned to play the guitar for real, as well as the piano, and worked as a DJ and news reporter on her college campus radio station, KAIR, at the University of Colorado. After graduation, she made a detour into the legal field. She spent several years as a paralegal, but kept one foot in music as lead singer for a local country cover band, Sagewind. She got back to her first loves of music and radio shortly after and she's been happily playing the tunes since 2002. When she's not playing country classics, Dee spends time with her other love, her 11-year-old cocker spaniel, Larry. The two of them make a great pack!

Jim West

5 until 6 a.m.

Country music has always been a part of my life. My dad listened to country music on the car radio and we watched every country music special on TV. I loved watching The Buck Owens Show because they were always wearing flashy duds and singing cool songs. I loved the TV specials and movies including The Johnny Cash specials, Eddy Arnold Specials, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The CMA Award Show, Urban Cowboy and others. The movie that really helped shaped my musical passion was "Hey Good Looking" The story of Hank Williams Senior. Of course from 1967 who could forget "Hillbillies In A Haunted House"? Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion.
Remember 8 Track Stereos in cars? My dad had two 8 Tracks; the Best of Buck Owens and The best of Merle Haggard. As a child I sang along with those 8 Tracks until I knew every word of every song. My parents took me to Nashville when I was 12 to see a show at the Grand Ole Opry where I saw Whispering Bill Anderson and others. What a huge impression that made on me too. The mother church of country music.

I got into country radio in 1977 while still in high school and its the only format I've ever worked. I'm sharing this with you because I want you to know I love this music as much as you do and have a deep appreciation for the history of our country music. I would bet like you, It's part of the fabric of our personalities. As I get older, I seem to relate to the lyrics even more.